The Names
Reader Score
77%
77% of readers
recommend this book
Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, "The Names" is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" ( "Los Angeles Times Book Review" ). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in "The Names" are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, "The Names" stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works.
Book Details
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: Jul 17th, 1989
- Pages: 339
- Language: English
- Dimensions: 7.96in - 5.20in - 0.83in - 0.56lb
- EAN: 9780679722953
- Categories: • Literary• Family Life - General• Thrillers - Suspense
About the Author
Don DeLillo is the author of fifteen novels, including Zero K, Underworld, Falling Man, White Noise, and Libra. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2010, he was awarded the PEN/Saul Bellow Prize. The Angel Esmeralda was a finalist for the 2011 Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2012, DeLillo received the Carl Sandburg Literary Award for his body of work.
Praise for this book
"Brilliant...a powerful, haunting book." --The New York Times Book Review "DeLillo's most accomplished novel." --Time "Compelling...strange and wonderful and frightening." --The New Yorker
"Exotic, atmospheric, curiously suspenseful, full of characters at once unusual and fully realized...an extraordinarily original and enveloping piece of work." --Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Exotic, atmospheric, curiously suspenseful, full of characters at once unusual and fully realized...an extraordinarily original and enveloping piece of work." --Los Angeles Times Book Review